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Questions about finding old accounts, informations and observations if they are still available.

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Is there any dataset that are monitoring the grounding electronic charges provided by the satellites?

I would like to know if there are some datasets that are monitoring the grounding electronic charges provided by the satellites
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Resources where one can find RD-171MV engine technical specifications? (e.g.TWR, Expansion Ratio, Isp, Thrust, Chamber pressure, O:F ratio)

I'm trying to get a hold of various technical specifications for the RD-171MV engine A modification of RD-171M being developed for the Irtysh rocket. Unlike RD-171M it's completely made from Russian ...
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Is there an API for accessing old TLEs of non-historic objects?

There are various APIs online for accessing TLEs for a satellite object from CelesTrak. However, the APIs retrieved are usually the most recent ones generated. There are also a lesser number of APIs ...
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What pictures did Mrs. Hart show to Congress?

In the record of the July 17 and 18, 1962 "Qualifications for Astronauts" hearings before the special subcommittee on the selection of astronauts that was organized to know if women could ...
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What is the safety record of launch vehicles per person-distance traveled, over all time?

Sometimes, the safety of various forms of transportation are compared based on the rate of fatalities (or injuries or other unplanned destructive accidents) per person-mile or person-kilometer ...
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Is the telemetry from the Apollo Lunar rovers available?

Are there publicly-available datasets of the telemetry from the Apollo lunar rovers? Was rover telemetry even recorded during those missions? If such datasets exist, I would love to retrieve the (...
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Is there a publicly available inventory of things sent to the ISS?

I spent some time looking through NASA datasets and news articles, and couldn't find anything, so I'm hoping that someone in the community will know better than I do: I'm trying to understand what the ...
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Arrhenius' calculation of the temperature of Venus

In this answer, we learn that in the early 1900s, Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius believed that Venus was covered in lush swamps. His book on this matter, "the destinies of the stars", ...
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Where are post-2017 EPIC images of Earth and the DSCOVR spacecraft coordinates available for download?

I tried to download orbital positions for the DSCOVR spacecraft in its Lissajous orbit around Sun-Earth L1 from JPL's Horizons web page but I was surprised to see the following! No ephemeris for ...
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History of investigation of lunar and Martian surface gravity

I wonder when it was discovered that the Moon has about a sixth of the Earth's surface gravity and that Mars has 0.38 g. I think that until Newton, everyone assumed there was the same gravity on every ...
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Looking for a document that describes SSME test failures

At some point in the last 5 years I put together this matrix of Space Shuttle Main Engine test failures. The last 6 columns are documents which describe some of the incidents in more or less detail. ...
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If I wanted to reconstruct an entire Apollo mission's crewed spacecraft trajectories, what are the key sources of historical data I'd look for?

The last few images in Robert A. Braeunig's Apollo 11's Translunar Trajectory; and how they avoided the heart of the radiation belts are fascinating and a bit perplexing as discussed in this answer ...
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Where is this LightSail-2 trajectory data coming from? Is there more than TLEs available to the public?

This tweet shows high granularity data for LightSail-2's perigee and apogee, showing that while the apogee-raising strategy is working nicely, currently atmospheric drag is taking its toll and the ...
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Where can I get design details about spacecrafts and space mission? [closed]

I am doing a project on designing a mission to Mars. I am researching similar missions and I want to find information on the mission details like Delta V, trajectories etc. and details of the ...
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Which Cubesat Cameras Actually Worked in Orbit before 2019?

Short question: Which Cubesat Cameras Actually Worked in Orbit before the year 2019? Context and explanation: The very few missions which published at least one image I've found: Planet Labs ...
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Trajectory information for Ranger, Luna, and other early Lunar explorers

Is there a location where I can get remotely reliable information on the trajectories for the old Ranger, Luna, and other lunar explorers? I'm especially interested in the ones that flew by the Moon ...
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Are there calculations regarding the Kármán line in the Theodore von Kármán collection?

According to this article, page 673: The "von Kármán line" appears to be what mathematicians refer to as a "folk theorem" , arising out of a conference discussion but never formally published by ...
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Historically, how risky are first launches of new rockets?

Apropos of the Falcon Heavy test flight scheduled for February 6, 2018, what is the failure rate of first launches of new orbital rocket designs? How has this rate changed over time since the 1950s? ...
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What part of the Earth was visible to Apollo 8 when the Christmas message was broadcast in 1968?

i.e., from what parts of the Earth would it have been possible to directly listen to the broadcast with a shortwave an amateur radio receiver? On a related note, which of NASA's tracking stations ...
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Provenance of the Apollo 11 landing presented in a NASA PR film

"The Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 11" is the title of an 18 minute NASA public relations film from 1969, available through the National Archives Catalog. One section shows the view from the ...
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Were the Saturn V construction plans destroyed?

Over the years, I often heard that we would not be able to build a Saturn V again since its construction plans actually have been destroyed. Then again, I heard that there are copies on microfiche or ...
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Where to look for historical or reconstructed orbit data for early NASA missions - Mercury-Atlas 6 for example

After reading this answer to How many earth stations had astronauts on-site during John Glenn's orbit in Friendship-7? I decided that for my own use I'd like to plot the orbit of Mercury-Atlas 6, the ...
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What is the scientific reason for selecting July 20 1969 for the moon landing?

There might be no reason but I doubt the date had simply no reason. I believe there may have been personal significance to Neil Armstrong. Alternatively picking a summer date may have been safer.
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Is there any publicly available logging, or "Wayback Machine" for DSN Now activity?

This question and especially this comment address activity associated with the Juno mission, both circa arrival, and the relatively quiet transit period to Jupiter. The idea is that there may have ...
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